dark sounds worthy of the name are coming to light, albeit in different forms.
Why all this talk of ghosts, dark and esoteric in music today? Perhaps these terms
primordial part of all cultures, are so present in today's music because never before has it been so evanescent and insubstantial, especially electronic music, and then the use of sampling revives sounds lost in memory. Many electronic artists build a sort of songs not songs, maybe only be defined as entities, so that it is called "Hauntology" this way of composing. What is
hauntology? The term comes from a book, "Specters of Marx," the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. The obsession of the spectrum, the ghost that is simultaneously present / absent, then the musical challenge to find his limits, belongs to the last Derrida, in his reflection: "A specter is both visible and invisible at the same weather phenomena and phenomenal track that marks the advance of this absence. The logic is indeed a ghostly deconstructive logic.
seems to live in a time when the music the principle of incomplete, not fully defined it is essential as well as spectra that are shocking because they are not well defined are bodies incoporei, can exist only at the threshold of sensitivity in the suggestions.
"The signal wave of pirate radio in the ether floating in London's night" as imagined and described his music Burial. And it is a signal that is seething with suppressed rage, but also hovering grace, tenderness reminiscent of that angel ghosts / angels of Wings of Desire Wenders. And despite
Burial is inspired by the life of London, associate his music to a place it seems impossible, because the interweaving of euphoria and sadness, those feelings of conflicting opportunities and constraints can be capita everywhere and especially in that no-place which is the network. In line with this advanced
of ghosts, dark and esoteric in the underground music world, it is the network that is emerging a phenomenon that has already taken various names "witch house", "haunted house" or "drag."
Grown with isolationism and web-room by horizontal access to all music produced in the last century, these musicians do not recognize themselves in a scene even in localized wave, because the wave is the same world and the music is infinite, would rather talk about community intentions.
You can be in Paris, London or New York, you can go darkwave from the shoegaze from dubstep and electronica, hip hop, but the way in which the whole is drawn aims to enhance the most disturbing aspects, magnifying the details to show the monstrosity in literature as he had done in his Atrocity Exhibition Ballard . Or simply take these sounds unusual shades of night and the voices seem to come from distant worlds as they are buried by the sound.
So there seems to be emerging a new musical vocabulary, focusing on the one hand obscure sounds that have been resurrected and re-articulated and the other on the way in which the voice is manipulated to create moods and atmospheres defined amorphous nature of spectral . Ghost voices.
It 's something similar to what happened in the movie Inception, where the music slows down and ethereal as a limbo between the layers of dreams (including nightmares are dreams). The
"memories of the future", that aesthetics started some years ago from the disks of Burial, Kode9 and labels like Ghost Box, Mordant Music etc.. Is overflowing to create an imaginary whole.
next to the names above, more intelligible, some bands are getting off. Names like Salem, Balam Ahab, White Ring, Modern Witch, Creep, OOOOO, Lake Radio, Raw Moans .... and then mainly in the use of headings, James Blake, Pariah, How to Dress Well, Forest Swords ...
The quivering intensity of these sounds will be able to heal the hurt and listeners more alert and sensitive, re / activating dormant passions ever ....
in headphones ... "Martin Hannett's Ghost" Radio Lake where there is intent to disrupt "The Eternal" of our beloved Joy Division.
Desertion-spectral sounds haunted houses
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